- 1折磨；使受苦
To afflict someone is to affect them in an unpleasant way and make them suffer. Disease afflicts people. Drought afflicts a region. A fear can afflict someone for years. English likes the passive here: people are afflicted with an illness; a country is afflicted by war. It is a serious, rather formal verb. You would not usually say a small headache afflicted you this morning — that is too heavy for a passing trouble. Though actually, news writing still loves it for large, ongoing hurt, while everyday speech often prefers suffer from or be hit by. The old weight of the word is useful when the suffering is real and not small.
組成From Middle English afflicten, from Latin afflīctō (“to damage, harass, torment”), from ad- + flīctus, past participle of afflīgō (“strike, beat”), from ad- + flīgō (“strike”).
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- afflictionthe noun for the pain or trouble itself
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
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afflictverb/əˈflɪkt/
- 1
To cause (someone) pain, suffering or distress.
- Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses. But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel.
- Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement: it shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord.
- 2
obsoleteTo strike or cast down; to overthrow; to result.
- reassembling our afflicted powers
- 3
obsoleteTo make low or humble.
- The Argument of mine afflicted stile
- Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error before an afflicted truth.
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